Tracy: If you just face the facts squarely as I did.Margaret: We both might face the fact that neither of us have proved to be a very great success as a wife.Tracy: We just picked the wrong first husbands, that's all.

Tracy: Isn't George an angel?...Is he handsome or is he not?Margaret: George is handsome.Dinah: I like Dexter.Tracy: Really. Why don't you postpone the wedding?Dinah: How?Tracy: Get smallpox.Margaret: Now don't put the idea in her head.

Dinah: She's so mean about Dexter.Margaret: He was rather mean to her, my dear.Dinah: Did he really sock her?Margaret: Please, Dinah.Dinah: Did he really?Margaret: Darling. You go out and wait in the car.Dinah: The papers were full of 'innundo.'Margaret: Of what?Dinah: Of 'innundo.' 'Cruelty and drunkenness,' it said. She's sort of, well you know, hard, isn't she?Margaret: Certainly not. Tracy sets exceptionally high standards for herself, that's all. And other people aren't always quite apt to live up to them.Dinah: But don't you think it's stinking not at least to want father?Margaret: Yes, darling. Between ourselves, I think it's good and stinking.

George: [looking through Spy Magazine] Well I thought maybe you, you being one of the oldest families in Philadelphia and me getting fairly important myself, it's luck of course...Tracy: [tossing the paper into the dirt] Of all the filthy ideas - coming into a private house with a camera.

Kidd: Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. 'The Unapproachable Miss Lord.' 'The Philadelphia Story'...(quote) 'A Wedding Day Inside Mainline Society.'Mike: Or: 'What the Kitchen Maid Saw Through the Keyhole.' (unquote)...(quote) 'No hunter of buckshot in the rear is Cagey Crafty Connor.' (unquote) (close paragraph)Liz: Close job, close bank account. But Mr. Kidd, how can you possibly get inside the Lord estate, let alone the house?Mike: Now we're not gonna do it, Liz, dawgonnit, it's degrading. It's undignified.Liz: And so is an empty stomach. How do we get in?